Phil Dunster on ‘Ted Lasso,’ Unlikeable Characters, Wrestling Steve Carell, and New Show ‘Rooster’
Zach Sang Show
Sangasong, LLC
4.6 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Phil Dunster became really pretty famous during the pandemic, thanks to the feelgood vibes of ‘Ted Lasso’ which we all tuned into during the pandemic, investing in the character arc of braggadocious footballer Jamie Tartt and his *insert fire emoji* on-and-offscreen chemistry with Roy Kent, played by Brett Goldstein. (Please refer to Brett Goldstein and Phil Dunster being mostly straight for 6:53 which also discuss in the interview.)
Although the 34-year-old isn’t back for ‘Ted Lasso’ season 4 (we talk about it), his career has gone from strength to strength, teaming up once more with showrunner and comedy genius Bill Lawrence (‘Scrubs,’ ‘Ted Lasso,’ ‘Shrinking’), for this new HBO Max comedy ‘Rooster.’
In it he plays the reprehensible Archie, and up himself Russian history professor who happens to be married to — and cheating on — Steve Carell’s daughter. Like all Lawrence-helmed comedies ‘Rooster’ treads the line between absurd, comedic, and heartwarming, and it’s been such a runaway success, it’s been renewed for a second season before the first finished airing.
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| 0:00.0 | By the way, hi, beautiful human. |
| 0:06.9 | I'm Zach, and that is Phil Dunster. |
| 0:08.3 | Oh, hello. |
| 0:08.9 | Hi. |
| 0:09.6 | Dude, God, art is amazing. |
| 0:13.5 | I love that we're talking about music, but you are rooted in a craft and something |
| 0:17.7 | that is so, it is different yet so similar at the same time, right? |
| 0:22.6 | And there is a deep similarity to both. And I want to get into it, but also I got to |
| 0:27.2 | congratulate you on a show that has been renewed for a second season before the first is even |
| 0:31.1 | done. That's what, like, how does that make you feel? |
| 0:35.3 | Good. It's, it's very, I feel very proud of the show in a way that oftentimes, there's so many things |
| 0:45.0 | out there, right? |
| 0:46.0 | There's so many things to watch. |
| 0:47.0 | And I'm not surprised that things sort of fall by the wayside, right? |
| 0:50.1 | But I feel like when people tell me that they've seen the show and that they really enjoy, |
| 0:53.6 | I really believe them because I'm like, I get it. You know, maybe there's elements of this show that isn't for everybody. I don't know, the humor or the style of it. But I think if you like the show, you love it because it just, I don't know, it feels like it sort of has that similar thing we're talking just now about like the, I mean, wouldn't i don't know if i would it's an art |
| 1:12.9 | form and when you have people who pursue their art with integrity i think that people just if they're |
| 1:18.7 | going to enjoy it they're going to enjoy it it's not for anything they're not doing it there's no |
| 1:22.2 | cynicism around it's what i'm trying to say how how is it pitched to you and then what is your |
| 1:26.9 | understanding of the origin origin story of how Rooster came to be? |
| 1:30.3 | So Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarsers, who are the creators of the show, fundamentally the show |
| 1:36.3 | is about a relationship between a father and a daughter. |
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